Re: Want to talk about files and shredding them etc

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:06:07AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: $ apt-get install wipe shred $ man wipe shred $ dpkg -S shred fileutils: /usr/share/man/man1/shred.1.gz fileutils: /usr/bin/shred -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. -

Re: Want to talk about files and shredding them etc

2001-12-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:58:23AM +1100, Penguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to talk about the filesystem or whatver is relevant to this. When I delete a file, it is not actually deleted, but marked as free space, right? So, assuming I have a program that can do these things:

Want to talk about files and shredding them etc

2001-12-27 Thread Penguin
I would like to talk about the filesystem or whatver is relevant to this. When I delete a file, it is not actually deleted, but marked as free space, right? So, assuming I have a program that can do these things: - issue system call to get file size in bytes - open file for writing, preserving

Re: Want to talk about files and shredding them etc

2001-12-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:58:23AM +1100, Penguin wrote: So essentially I can write a user mode file shredder/secure deletion program in C using just the standard C library on Debian? Sure, if you really wanted to. Or you could just `man shred`. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop